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Would be interesting to give one of these a go as my daily driver, getting sick of lugging around a heavy 2011 Macbook Pro! I wonder what the options are like out of the box for development, or if this will work http://afaqdar.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/5-different-chromebook...
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Exynos 5250 GAIA Application Processor Isn't this the same dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 that was in Samsung's Chromebook last year?
Indeed it is. This is a horrible time to buy this... Assuming Samsung's new Series 3 ARM Chromebook (Rumored Exynos 5420... "Eight core" CPU+Mali T628) keeps the same price this year ($250), then HP's model is left in the dust. No one should be buying a new Nexus 4, 10, or Chromebook until mid november if they want to have a cutting edge device.
Only benefit I see with this model is that its an IPS display. We'll see what Samsung or Google produces this November.
Never mind this. When will the UK get Chromecast?
Check today's Amazon announcement, they are shipping to UK.
£59.99 = 96.47 US Dollar
Sold by Sinclair Intl and Fulfilled by Amazon.
Nothing about that sounds right.
1. Do consumers want what is essentially a modern netbook? Didn't this market die once the iPad and tablets took hold?
It would seem from recent consumer buying trends that most prefer a touch screen/tablet form factor at this price point/screen size.
2. How does this compare to an Android tablet (Nexus 10) with a high quality keyboard? Or even some of the "transformer" products with keyboards/additional ports already available?
It seems you pay quite a premium for touch, I wonder if this machine will help sway people back into this form factor without touch/tablet mode.
Does '2GB (4x 4Gbit) DDR3 RAM' mean that it can grow to 16gb of ram? Under those conditions I would seriously consider getting it and running crouton.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exynos 5250 GAIA Application Processor Isn't this the same dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 that was in Samsung's Chromebook last year?
Indeed it is. This is a horrible time to buy this... Assuming Samsung's new Series 3 ARM Chromebook (Rumored Exynos 5420... "Eight core" CPU+Mali T628) keeps the same price this year ($250), then HP's model is left in the dust. No one should be buying a new Nexus 4, 10, or Chromebook until mid november if they want to have a cutting edge device.
I like the fact it uses a microusb charger but they removed all the other ports I wanted, like HDMI, Ethernet, VGA and sd. I was planning on getting an Acer C7 and this won't change that.
In a similar vein I'd guess you can get ethernet and SD card adaptors via the full size USB.
serious work=>Laptop, casual work=>tablet, ? => chromebook
What about casual programming? Still kind of a sore spot for tablets - if I'm wrong, please tell me why! If I could just do simple emacs/bash stuff with perl/python/javascript/html and maybe even C/C++ I'd be a lot happier buying a tablet. Not really sure if you can do this with a chromebook either, though. Can it run a modern linux distro?
Does '2GB (4x 4Gbit) DDR3 RAM' mean that it can grow to 16gb of ram? Under those conditions I would seriously consider getting it and running crouton.